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The 7 Covenants and
the 7 Dispensations Roger Liebi
Introduction
• I. The Structure of the Bible
• II. Are there Dispensations?
• III. Covenants and Dispensations
• IV. The Structure of Dispensations
Old
Testament
39 Books
Promise:
Messiah will come
New
Testament
27 Books
Fulfillment:
Messiah has come.
1606 – 420 B.C. 32 – 100 A.D.
I. The Structure of the Bible
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Old
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39 Books
Promise: Messiah will
come
New
Testament
27 Books
Fulfillment: Messiah has
come.
II. Are there Dispensations? Eph 1: 20 ... He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at
His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
• Cf. Math 12:32; Mark 10:30; Luk 18:30
aion = age, world, eternity = hebr. ‘olam
Differentiation between 2 ages.
Like in the Rabbinical Literature: ha‘olam hazeh: this age
ha‘olam haba‘: the coming age (= Messianic Kingdom)
From Genesis to Revelation
The Coming Age This Age
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Eph 1: ... 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth - in Him.
• Explanatory commentary: During the Millenium Christ will rule over the whole earth. This kimgdom is called here ”The dispensation of the fullness of time”.
• oikonomia = household, house law, stewardship, dispensation, lat. “dispensatio”
„Dispensationalism“ = Dividing of the Biblical timeline according to different ages /dispensations
II. Are there Dispensations?
From Genesis to Revelation
The Coming Age This Age
„The household
of the fullness of time“
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From Genesis to Revelation
The Coming Age This Age
„The stewardship
of the fullness of time“
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From Genesis to Revelation
The Coming Age This Age
„The dispensation
of the fullness of time“
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Col 1: ... 26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
Cf. Rom 16:25; 1Cor 10:11; 2Tim 1:9; Hebr 9:26
These verses speak about ages in the plural.
Plural = at least 2!
Eph 1:21 and Col 1:26 speak about at least 4 ages!
II. Are there Dispensations?
From Genesis to Revelation
The Coming Age This Age past age past age
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Jeremiah 31: 31 " Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -- 32 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
• Explanation: The Millennium – “the Coming Age” – will begin with a new covenant with Israel. This covenant stays in contrast to the covenant at Sinai. Contrast of 2 covenants and 2 dispensations
• Question: Are there still other covenants of God?
III. Covenants and Dispensations
III. Covenants and Dispensations
The seven Covenants of God
• 1. The covenant with Adam (Gen 1-2; Hos 6:7)
• 2. The covenant with Noah (Gen 9)
• 3. The covenant with Abraham (Gen 12-22)
• 4. The covenant with Israel at Sinai (Ex 19)
• 5. The covenant with David (Ps 89:3; 2Sam 7)
• 6. The covenant with Zedekiah (Ez 17)
• 7. The covenant with Israel (Jer 31:31)
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IV. The Structure of Dispensations 1 - Beginning
God makes a covenant: Blessing
2 - Development
Man reveals himself to be unfaithful: Degeneration
3 - End
God intervenes and judges unfaitful man: Curse
Blessing
Curse
God’s judgement
1. A good beginning
2. A sad development
3. An end, that leads to judgement
Blessing
Curse
God’s judgement
BEGINNING
DEVELOPMENT
END
Age = greek. aion = hebr. ‘olam
IV. The Structure of Dispensations
The 1st Dispensation
USA
From Adam to the Genesis Flood
The 1st Dispensation
• Gen 1-2:
• Perfect Creation
• Paradise
• Covenant with Adam:
God is LORD
Blessing for Adam and Eve
Marriage: one man and one woman
Fruitfulness and Multiplication
Task to rule over nature
Vegetarian food
Test of obidience
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Beginning
Gen 3-6:
• Disobedience against God‘s commandment
• Curse, suffering, death, sin (Rom 5:12)
• Expelling from Paradise
• 1st murder
• Civilisation without God: City of Enoch,
polygamy, music, economy, technology,
poetry, to fill up the vacuum without God
• Violence, occult perversion
The 1st Dispensation
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Development
The Redeemer
Gen 3:15
The 1st Dispensation
• Gen 5:
A testimony for God
10 generations from Adam to Noah
Adam, Seth, Enosch, Cainan, Mahalalel,
Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah
1656 years
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DEVELOPMENT 8x: „… and he died.“
The 1st Dispensation
END
Gen 6-8: The Genesis Flood
after 120 years of grace
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1. A good beginning
2. A sad development
3. An end, that leads to judgement
Blessing
Curse
God’s judgement
BEGINNING
DEVELOPMENT
END Age = greek. aion = hebr. ‘olam
The 1st Dispensation
The 2nd Dispensation
USA
From Noah to Abraham
The 2nd Dispensation
Gen 9:
• Covenant with Noah (with the whole earth, for as long as the earth exists)
• Rain bow (Sign)
• Blessing and task
• Meat allowed
• No blood eating (Acts 15:20.29; 16:4; 21:25)
• Government (Rom 13)
• Capital punishment (Rom 13)
Beginning
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Ararat
The 2nd Dispensation
• Gen 9-11:
• Noah intoxicated
• Ham despises his father.
• Ham‘s son Canaan cursed.
• Nimrod („Let us rebell!“) = 1st ruler
• City of Babel / Babylon built up
• Tower of Babel = temple of idolatry
• Babylon labored sorceries from her youth (Is 47:12).
• Rebellion against God‘s commandment to fill the earth.
• Humanity organized:
Erech, Accad, Calneh, Niniveh, Sodom, Gomorrha
DEVELOPMENT
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The 2nd Dispensation
• 1. Sem 100 + 500 = 600
• 2. Arphaxad 35 + 403 = 438
• 3. Salah 30 + 403 = 433
• 4. Eber 34 + 430 = 464
• 5. Peleg 30 + 209 = 239
• 6. Reu 32 + 207 = 239
• 7. Serug 30 + 200 = 230
• 8. Nahor 29 + 119 = 148
• 9. Terah 70 + 135 = 205
• 10. Abraham 100 + 75 = 175
Mount Ararat
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DEVELOPMENT
From the Genesis Flood to the Covenant with Abraham: 427 years
The 2nd Dispensation
Gen 10-11:
• Confusion of tongues
• Dispersion of the tribes
• Continental drift (Gen 10:25)
• God let the tribes and peoples fall into ignorance and immorality.
END
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The 2nd Dispensation
Rom 1: 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
END
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The 2nd Dispensation
Rom 1: 28 And even as they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased
mind, to do those things which are
not fitting; ...
END
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The 2nd Dispensation
Acts 14: ...16 [God], who in
bygone generations allowed all
nations to walk in their own
ways.
Acts 17: 30 Truly, these times
of ignorance God overlooked,
but now commands all men
everywhere to repent, ...
END
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The 2nd Dispensation
Josh 24: 2 And Joshua said
to all the people, "Thus says
the LORD God of Israel: 'Your
fathers, including Terah, the
father of Abraham and the
father of Nahor, dwelt on the
other side of the River in old
times; and they served other
gods.
END
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The 3rd Dispensation
USA
From Abraham to Moses
The 3rd
Dispensation
Gen 12: 1 Now the LORD had
said to Abram: "Get out of your
country, from your family and
from your father's house, to a
land that I will show you. 2 I
will make you a great nation; I
will bless you And make your
name great; and you shall be a
blessing. 3 I will bless those
who bless you, And I will curse
him who curses you; and in
you all the families of the earth
shall be blessed."
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John 3:16
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Blessing for the whole world
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BEGINNING
The 3rd Dispensation
Gen 12: 6 Abram passed
through the land to the
place of Shechem, as far as
the terebinth tree of Moreh.
And the Canaanites were
then in the land. 7 Then the
LORD appeared to Abram
and said, "To your
descendants I will give this
land." And there he built an
altar to the LORD, who had
appeared to him.
Shichem, todays Nablus
Gal 3: 17 And this I say, that the law, which was
430 years later, cannot annul the covenant that
was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it
should make the promise of no effect.
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BEGINNING
2036 B.C.
The 3rd Dispensation
Gen 12: 6 Abram passed
through the land to the
place of Shechem, as far as
the terebinth tree of Moreh.
And the Canaanites were
then in the land. 7 Then the
LORD appeared to Abram
and said, "To your
descendants I will give this
land." And there he built an
altar to the LORD, who had
appeared to him.
Shichem, todays Nablus
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BEGINNING
2036 B.C.
Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: Gen 12:6; 13:14-18; 15:1; 17:1 22:16-18; 26:3-5.24; 28:13; 35:9
The 3rd Dispensation
• Gen 16-50:
• Abraham‘s marriage with Hagar
• Problems in the family of Abraham (Isaac / Ishmael; Hagar / Sarah)
• Problems in the family of Isaac: Jacob betrays his father.
• Deadly cnflict between Jacob and Esau Jacob had to flee.
• Laban betrays Jacob.
• Jacob‘s marriages with 4 women
• Problems in the family of Jacob: 10 brothers against Joseph
• Strives between the 4 women.
• Dina defiled
• Joseph sold into slavery
• The 10 sons betray their father Jacob.
• Ruben‘s incest
• Juda‘a fall into whoredom with Tamar
• God‘s discipline: famine
• By God‘s grace: survival in Egypt
DEVELOPMENT
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Idolatry in Egypt
The 3rd Dispensation
• The descendants of
Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob served the god‘s of
Egypt (Ez 23:3; 20:7-8).
• God‘s judgement: Israel
fell into the hands of the
Egyptians cruel
slavery, slaughter of
children (Ex 1) END
Beginning: Abraham leaves idolatry.
End: Abraham‘s descendants fell into idolatry.
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The 4th Dispensation
USA
From Moses to David
The 4th Dispensation
Ex - Josh:
• God‘s judgement of Eypt by the 10 plagues (cf. Gen 12:3).
• God‘s redemption of Israel
• God‘s call for Moses
• Israel delivered
• At Sinai: covenant with Israel
• Building of the Tabernacle
• Israel‘ blessing (Ex 39:43)
• Journey through the desert, conquest of the promised land
• Blessing in the land (Josh 21:43-45)
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BEGINNING
The 4th Dispensation
EX – 1Sam:
• Golden Calf
• Disobedience in the desert
• 7 apostasies in the time of
the Judges (450 years, Acts
13:20)
• „Everyone did what was right
in his own eyes.“ (Judges
17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25)
• Israel‘s rejection of God as
their King (1Sam 8)
DEVELOPMENT
NASA
The 4th Dispensation
Ex – 1Sam:
1Sam 8: 7 And the LORD
said to Samuel, "Heed
the voice of the people in
all that they say to you;
for they have not
rejected you, but they
have rejected Me, that I
should not reign over
them. DEVELOPMENT
The 4th Dispensation
1Sam 8-30:
Hos 13:
11 I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.
God judged Israel, giving them a
king, that should bring the people
into a military catastrophy.
END
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The 4th Dispensation
END
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• 1Sam 8-30:
• Hos 13:
• 11 I gave you a king in My anger,
And took him away in My wrath.
• God judged Israel, giving them a king, that should bring the people into a military catastrophy.
The 5th Dispensation
USA
From David to Zedekiah
The 5th Dispensation
1/2Sam – 2King/2Chr:
• God chose David as king and forefather of Messiah, the ruler of the world.
• God chose Jerusalem as His city and as city of the Temple.
• 1Sam 13: 14 ... The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be commander over His people, ...
BEGINNING
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Jerusalem
The 5th Dispensation
1/2Sam – 2King/2Chr:
• God chose David as king and forefather of Messiah, the ruler of the world.
• God chose Jerusalem as His city and as city of the Temple.
• 1Sam 16: 1 ... Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons."
BEGINNING
RL
David‘s Millo
Covenant with David:
2Sam 7; Ps 89; 132; Jer 33
The 5th Dispensation
1/2Sam – 2King/2Chr:
• God chose David as king and forefather of Messiah, the ruler of the world.
• God chose Jerusalem as His city and as city of the Temple.
• 2Chr 6: 6 'Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there; and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.' BEGINNING
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Ruins of David‘s palace
The 5th Dispensation
• God chose David as king
and forefather of Messiah,
the ruler of the world.
• God chose Jerusalem as
His city and as city of the
Temple.
• Ps 89: 3 "I have made a
covenant with My chosen, I
have sworn to My servant
David: 4 'Your seed I will
establish forever, And build
up your throne to all
generations.' "
BEGINNING
RL
Kidron Vally and City of David
The 5th Dispensation
• Salomon‘s fall into idolatry.
• Israel divided into 2 nations
• Israels fall into idolatry
• Northern Kingdom: only godless kings
• Southern Kingdom: most kings were godless
• Refrain: „And he did evil in the sight of the LORD.“
DEVELOPMENT
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King Graves in the City of David
The 5th Dispensation 1. Jerobeam I. 975 – 954
2. Nadab 954 – 953
3. Baasha 953 – 930
4. Elah 930 – 929
5. Zimri 929
6. Omri 929 – 918
7. Ahab 918 – 897
8. Ahazia 898 – 897
9. Joram 897 – 886
10. Jehu 886 – 858
11. Jehoahaz 857 – 841
12. Joash 840 – 825
13. Jerobeam II. 825 – 785
Interreign 784 – 773
14. Zekariah 773
15. Shallum 772
16. Menachem 772 – 762
17. Pekahia 761 – 760
18. Pekah 759 – 740
Interreign 739 – 731
19. Hosea 731 – 722/721
ENTWICKLUNG
Jeroboam‘s High Place at Dan
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The 5th Dispensation 1. Rehabeam 976 – 959
2. Abijam 958 – 956
3. Asa 956 – 915
4. Jehoshaphat 915 – 890
5. Joram 889 – 887
6. Ahazia 886
7. Athaliah 885 – 879
8. Joash 879 – 840
9. Amazia 839 – 811
10. Uzziah 810 – 759
11. Jotham 758 – 743
12. Ahaz 742 – 727
13. Hezekiah 727 – 698
14. Manasseh 697 – 643
15. Amon 642 – 641
16. Josiah 641 – 610
17. Jehoahaz 609
18. Jehoakim 609 - 598
19. Jehoakin 598/597
20. Zedekiah 597 - 586 DEVELOPMENT
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Jeroboam‘s High Place at Dan
The 5th Dispensation
• 722: Fall of the Northern
Kingdom, Assyrian
deportation
• 606-582: Fall of the
Southern Kingdom,
Babylonian deportation
• End of the Davidic
Kingdom
• 586: Destruction of
Jerusaelm and the
Temple END
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Assyria
Babylonia
The 6th Dispensation
USA
The Times of the Nations
The 6th Dispensation
• Dan 1: 1 In the third
year of the reign of
Jehoiakim king of
Judah, Nebuchad-
nezzar king of
Babylon came to
Jerusalem and
besieged it. 2 And the
Lord gave Jehoiakim
king of Judah into his
hand, ...
• 606: Juda becomes a
satellite state / vassal state
of Babylonia.
BEGINNING
The 6th Dispensation
• 2Chr 36: 13 And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath by God; ...
• 606: Judah becomes a satellite state / vassal state of Babylonia.
• 597: Nebuchadnezzar makes a covenant with Zedekiah, which God calls „my covenant (Ez 17; 2Kings 24:14-16; 2Chr 36:10-13). Judah accepts Babylon‘s power.
BEGINNING
Beginning of
The „Times of the Gentiles“
(Luke 21,24)
The 6th Dispensation
Ez 17: 12 ... Indeed the king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its king and princes, and led them with him to Babylon. 13 'And he took the king's offspring [Zedekiah], made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land, 14 'that the kingdom might be brought low and not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. 15 'But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Can he break a covenant and still be delivered? 16 'As I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke -- with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
BEGINNING God‘s Covenant with Zedekiah
DEVELOPMENT
The 6th Dispensation Ez 17: 17 'Nor will Pharaoh with his mighty army and
great company do anything in the war, when they heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off many persons. 18 'Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.' " 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head. 20 "I will spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and try him there for the treason which he committed against Me. 21 "All his fugitives with all his troops shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered to every wind; and you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken."
God‘s Covenant with Zedekiah
DEVELOPMENT
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 2: 37 "You, O king, are a
king of kings. For the God of
heaven has given you a
kingdom, power, strength,
and glory; 38 "and wherever
the children of men dwell, or
the beasts of the field and
the birds of the heaven, He
has given them into your
hand, and has made you
ruler over them all -- you are
this head of gold.
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DEVELOPMENT
Nebuchadnezzar‘s Dream (603 B.C.
„The Times of the Gentiles“
(Luke 21:24)
City walls of Babylon
The 6th Dispensation
• Dan 7 (549 B.C.):
• 1. Lion with eagle‘s wings = Babylon
• 2. Geary Bear
• = Medopersia
• 3. Leopard with 4 wings and 4 heads
• = Greece
• 4. Terrible beast with 10 horns
• = Rom
• The: The Son of Man on the clouds of heaven = The Kingdom of God
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DEVELOPMENT
Daniel‘s dream (549 B.C.)
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
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The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
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Rev 17:8:
„The beast that you saw [a]
was, and [b] is not, and [c] will
ascend out of the bottomless
pit and go to perdition.
[a] was [b] is not [c] will ascend
1st Coming 2nd Coming
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9: 23 ... therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision: 24 Seventy weeks [of years] are determined for your people and for your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
Daniel‘s Prophecy concerning the 70 Weeks of Years
1 week of years = 7 years 70 weeks of years = 490 years
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9: 25 Know
therefore and
understand, that from
the going forth of the
command to restore
and build Jerusalem
until Messiah the
Prince, there shall be
seven weeks [of years]
and sixty-two weeks [of
years]; ...
RL
DEVELOPMENT
Daniel‘s Prophecy concerning the 70 Weeks of Years
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
69 x 7 x 360 days
Command to rebuild Messiah the Prince
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
69 x 7 x 360 days
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9: 25 … the street
shall be built again,
and the wall, even in
troublesome times.
• Permanent military
pressure by Israel‘s
ennemies (Neh 2-6).
RL
DEVELOPMENT
Daniel‘s prophecy about the 70 weeks of years
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
69 x 7 x 360 days
Command to rebuild Messiah the Prince
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
Pression by the ennemies (Neh 2-5).
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9 (Darby): 26 And after
the sixty-two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, and
shall have nothing; ...
• Jerusalem rebuilt: during 7
weeks of years (49 years)
• Then: the 62 weeks
• At the End of the 7 + 62
weks of years: Messiah,
the Prince
• 5 days later: crucifixion
Calvary, outside the city
Holyland Corp. Jerusalem / RL
DEVELOPMENT
Daniel‘s prophecy about the 70 weeks of years
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
69 x 7 x 360 days
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
march/april 445 B.C. – march/april 32 A.D.
69 x 7 x 360 days
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
Times of
the Gentiles
7 y
Kingdom
of God
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
Daniel‘s 70 Weeks of Years
Is that correct?
Times of
the Gentiles
7 y
Kingdom
of God
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
Daniel‘s 70 Weeks of Years
NO!
The 6th
Dispensation
Dan 9:
26 … and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. ...
• 70 A.D.: Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple
Davids Tower Jerusalem / RL
DEVELOPMENT
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
march/april 445 B.C. – march/april 32 A.D.
69 x 7 x 360 days
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
70 n. Chr
The 6th
Dispensation
Luk 21: 24 "And they
will fall by the edge of
the sword, and be led
away captive into all
nations. And
Jerusalem will be
trampled by Gentiles
until the times of the
Gentiles are fulfilled.
RL
DEVELOPMENT
„The Times of the Gentiles“
Daniel‘s 69 Weeks of Years
1 week of years (hebr. shavua’) = 7 years of 360 days
62 + 7 weeks of years = 69 weeks of years
69 x 7 x 360 days = 173‘880 days
march/april 445 B.C. – march/april 32 A.D.
69 x 7 x 360 days
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 weeks of years
62 weeks of years
70 n. Chr
The 6th
Dispensation
Dan 9 (Darby): 26 … and
the people of the prince
that shall come shall
destroy the city and the
sanctuary; and the end
thereof shall be with an
overflow, and unto the
end, war, -- the
desolations determined.
DEVELOPMENT
RL
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
… and unto the end, war,
-- the desolations determined.
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9: 26 … … and unto the end, war, -- the desolations determined.
• 70 Destruction of Jerusalem (> 1 million dead)
• 135 Destruction of Jerusalem (> 1 million dead)
• 614 Destruction by the Persians
• 629 Conquest by the Byzantines
• 638 Arab Muslim Conquest
• 1071 Conquest by the Turks
• 1099 Conquest by the Crusaders
• 1187 Conquest by Sultan Saladin
• 1244 Conquest by the Tatars
• 1517 Conquest by the Osman Empire
• 1917 Conquest by England
• 1948 Destrutions in Estern Jerusalem by Jordan
• 1967 Conquest of Eastern Jerusalem in the Six-Day-War
DEVELOPMENT
End / End Times
• End Times = the period, in which the
Jewish people returns from the
worldwide dispersion to the land of
the forefather
Hes 38: 8 … in the latter years thou
shalt come into the land that is
brought back from the sword, and is
gathered out of many people,
against the mountains of Israel,
which have been always waste: but
it is brought forth out of the nations,
...
… and unto the end, war,
-- the desolations determined.
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
Since 1882
… and unto the end, war,
-- the desolations determined.
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9 (Darby): 27 And he [i.e. the coming Roman Prince] shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week; ...
DEVELOPMENT
„the many“ = the mass of the
Jewish people (Dan 9:27;
11:33.39; 12:3)
D. Dubs
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 y
DEVELOPMENT
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9 (Darby): 27 And he [i.e.
the coming Roman Prince]
shall confirm a covenant with
the many for one week; and in
the midst of the week he shall
cause the sacrifice and the
oblation to cease, ...
DEVELOPMENT
„the many“ = the mass of the
Jewish people (Dan 9:27;
11:33.39; 12:3)
D. Dubs
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 y
DEVELOPMENT
The 6th Dispensation
Dan 9 (Darby): 27 ... and because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate.
“Desolator” = “the King of the North”; “the Assyrian” (Dan 11:40-45; Joel 1-2; Is 28-29; Micah 5; Zec 12-14 etc.)
DEVELOPMENT
D. Dubs
„the many“ = the mass of the
Jewish people (Dan 9:27;
11:33.39; 12:3)
The 6th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 y
DEVELOPMENT
„the Great Tribulation“ (Mat 24:20)
The 7th Dispensation
USA
The Millennium
The 7th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 J. = 483 J
445 B.C 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 J. Kingom
of God
Beginning
Rev 20
The 7th Dispensation
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 J. = 483 J
445 B.C 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 J. Kingom
of God
Rev 20
END
The Day of Eternity
USA
A new Heaven an a New Earth
From Genesis to Revelation
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The Age of Ages
USA
The Mystery of the Church
„The Ages of Ages“
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 J.
„The Mystery of God“
The Myteries in Paul‘s letters
• 1. The Mystery of the fullness of Nations (Rom 11:25-27)
• 2. The Mystery of Rapture (1Kor 15:51)
• 3. The Mystery of His will (Eph 1:9)
• 4. The Mystery the Body of Christ (Eph 3:4-6)
• 5. The Mystery Christ‘s wife (Eph 5,32)
• 6. The Mystery Christ in you (Col 1:25-26)
• 7. The Mystery of piety (1Tim 3:16)
• 8. The Mystery of lawlessness (2Thess 2:7)
„The Ages of Ages“
„The Times of the Gentiles“
69x7 y = 483 y
445 B.C. 32 A.D.
7 + 62 = 69
70 A.D.
7 J.
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